" 'Love', this English word; like other English words it has tense. 'Loved', or 'will love', or 'have loved'. All these specific tense mean Love is time-limited thing. Not infinte. It only exist in particular period of time. In Chinese, Love is 爱. It has no tense, no past and future. Love in Chinese means a being, a situation, a circumstance. Love is existence, holding past and future.
If our love existed in the Chinese tense, then it will last forever. It will be infinte. "
-- Guo Xiaolu; A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers